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Kelly Ripa revealed the question that surprised her when comedian Chris Rock asked her.
On Wednesday, July 10, during an episode of Lives with Kelly and MarkBoth she and her husband Mark Consuelos were talking about some of their friends who have used the same names for their children.
“Can you imagine if one of our friends said, ‘You can’t call that girl Lola because I’m going to call that girl Lola’?” Consuelos asked Ripa, using her 23-year-old daughter Lola as an example.
“No, but remember there’s a really funny story,” his wife and co-host replied. “Chris Rock called me when he was expecting his first daughter (I had just had Lola) and he said, ‘Listen, Malaak and I are thinking about naming the baby Lola and we just want to check in with you if that’s OK. ’”
“And I was like, ‘First of all, I don’t own the name Lola, I didn’t trademark it. And second of all, we can all agree that Lola Rock is an amazing name. ’ Like, ‘Do you mind if I change the last name from Lola to Rock? ’”
“That was very kind of you,” Consuelos chimed in.
Ripa then explained that because of how common the name Lola is, she never thought about having to give the comedian permission to use it. “Yeah, but it never occurred to me. I didn’t even… I’m not the only Kelly, you’re not the only Mark,” she said.
The couple also share two sons: Michael, 27, and Joaquin, 21.
The couple recently had a conversation about arranged marriages on their show and how involved they think parents should be in their children's love lives.
“Well, listen to this,” Ripa told her husband during a June episode of her talk show. “The Indian dating The show brought it to the forefront and showed people what arranged marriage is all about. The national average for divorce is around 50 percent. The divorce rate in arranged marriages is four percent. So parents know what they are talking about.”
This information led Consuelos to wonder out loud: “Would we do that for our children?”
“I think we would choose the kids that our kids are with, we would choose them. If I could have hand-picked them… but I don’t want to say that,” Ripa responded.
The two came to the conclusion that the best decision they could make regarding their children and who to date was to “say nothing.”
